All Thomas Pynchon Quotes
- The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger. Among
- Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up. Day
- To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult. Becomes
- It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. Any
- Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane. Accident
- Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but… Afraid
- Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth. Behind
- He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. Born
- You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but… Another World
- Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you. Any
- Teamwork," Koteks snarled, "is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness… Avoid
- Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much. Garlic
- All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. Abstract
- There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. Behavior
- A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. Across
- She would give them order. She would create constellations. Constellations
- While nobles are crying in their nights' chains, the squires sing. The terrible politics of the Grail can never touch them. Song is the magic… Cape
- If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. Answer
- She thought of a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. Cornell